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Rational: In Kindergarten students are learning about the different seasons of the year. They will learn how each different season affects the way people dress, and the weather. This integrated unit includes an art lesson in which students will be able to produce art work based on how they perceive the seasons using their five senses.
Lesson 1- Reading
- Teacher will read students "All Around the Seasons" by Barney Saltzberg. Students will start an interactive notebook.
- SS.K.G.3.3-Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.
- LAFS.K.W.1.2- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
Lesson 2- Social Studies
- Students will analyze how the seasons affect the clothes people wear.
- SS.K.G.3.3-Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.
Lesson 3- Science
- Students will analyze the different descriptors that make each season unique using their five senses
- SS.K.G.3.3-Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.
- SC.K.N.1.2- Make observations of the natural world and know that they are descriptors collected using the five senses.
Lesson 4- Math
- Students will solve word problems using different items from different seasons.
- SS.K.G.3.3-Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.
- MAFS.K.OA.1.2- Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem (Students are not required to independently read the word problems.)
Lesson 5- Art
- Students will draw the four seasons
- SS.K.G.3.3-Describe and give examples of seasonal weather changes, and illustrate how weather affects people and the environment.
- VA.K.S.1.2 -Produce artwork influenced by personal decisions and ideas.
Pre-Assessment
Post-Assessment
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- The first artifact you can use with this lesson is: Autumn leaves. Bring in all different colors of leaves to show the children what you mean when you tell them that the leave change colors.
- The second artifact that you can use with this lesson is: flowers. Bring in all different types of flowers that are in bloom during the spring. You can even tell them the saying April showers brings May flowers.
- The third artifact that you can use with this lesson is: sand from the beach. You can just go down the street to the beaches near us and bring a pretty container and fill it with the sand. Different colors of sand. and put in some sea shells. This is the one the student will recognize most since they live so close to the beach.
- The fourth artifact you can use with this lesson is: fake snow. Living in Florida most children haven't seen sow yet. And some may not even know that is snows in other states because it doesn't where they live. I think this is going to be a very important artifact for children who live here.
- The fifth artifact that you can use during this lesson is: clothes. Bring in different types of clothes that are worn during each season. Bring is a bathing suit for summer, snow clothes for winter, rain boots for fall, and bring colorful cloths for spring. Emphasize that the changes in weather is due to the changes in season. And the changes in season make it so people have to change the type of clothes they wear.
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- "All Around the Seasons" by Barney Saltzberg. This book is used the the reading lesson, which is intended to be lesson number one in the unit plan.From the first flowers of spring through the lazy days of summer, the brisk chill of autumn, and the shivery anticipation of blustery, snowy holidays, ALL AROUND THE SEASONS highlights the wonderful things that make each turn in the year unique. Lively verses and exuberant images show children finding fun in everyday pastimes -- digging a garden or drawing on the sidewalk, dancing through sprinklers or making s’mores, carving pumpkins or building a snowman beside a house full of twinkling lights. Barney Saltzberg’s latest creation is an ode to the great gifts of nature, to families’ shared memories, and to childhood itself. (http://www.barneysaltzberg.com/?q=node/66)
- "Red Sings From the Roof Tops" by Joyce Sidman. A charmingly exploration of seasons and how they can be captured in colors and sounds (ie: old leaves and crushed berries smell purple, green "peeks from buds" and "white clinks in drinks.") Sidman's evocative word pictures and Zagarenski's mixed-media illustrations are perfect.This charming picture book is custom-made for teaching poetry, the seasons, and color in art. Some of the poetic color-to-season or smell-to- season connections will likely be challenging for younger students to grasp, so we suggest you preface your read aloud by saying that this book shares how the author thinks of seasons. "Let's see if you think of the same colors and sounds when you think of the seasons, or if you think of different ones." (http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/Red-Sings-from-Treetops-lesson.html)
- "A Tree For All Seasons" by Robin Bernard.As the title suggests, this book looks at a tree throughout the year to see how it changes with the seasons. In crisp, large photographs and casual, conversational text, A Tree for All Seasons also discusses the parts of a tree--in this case a large maple--and how those parts function. (http://www.the-best-childrens-books.org/seasons-for-kids.html)
- "Snow Day" by Lester Laminack. There is eager anticipation of a day off from school when the forecast promises snow. “Just imagine . . . so much snow, even the buses can’t go. No—so much snow even the teachers can’t go.” The narrator makes big plans for winter fun in anticipation of a snow day and awakens to discover . . . no snow! Dizzying hopes and dashed dreams are pitch-perfect in Lester Laminack’s picture book that ends with a surprising and hilarious twist when the identity of the narrator is revealed. Adam Gustavson uses a variety of intriguing perspectives in his full-color illustrations. (https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/detailBook.asp?idBooks=2753)
- "Calendar" by Myra Livingston. A poem that first appeared in a 1959 collection by Myra Cohn Livingston makes for a spirited trip across the year as a stand-alone picture book. Livingston marks each month by a distinctive action or activity. January “shivers,” March “blows off the winter ice.” June is “deep blue swimming.” December brings snow and sleds and Santa. Livingston’s brief poem is in the first-person, and artist Will Hillenbrand depicts the speaker as a lively, dark-haired, white-skinned girl in his vibrant mixed-media illustrations. (https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/detailBook.asp?idBooks=2926)
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- http://weather-facts.com/seasons-facts.php
- This website is for the teacher to use as a resource. It has facts about the four season. It gives you the months the seasons take place, as well as other information about the seasons weather. You can use to this to brush up on your knowledge about the four season to make sure you are teaching your students everything about the seasons you can. Its a short website so its an easy read and wont take to much of your time.
- http://easyscienceforkids.com/all-about-seasons/
- This is a website for children. Its a short lesson on the seasons. It has vocabulary, and a short explanation as to why the seasons happen when they happen. I would use this website as either a follow up homework assignment or a homework assignment before we have our unit on seasons. Either way I would send this website home with the children and have their parents go over it with them. I could even have a little worksheet that the students can work on while they look through the website.
- http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/scienceforkids/seasons/seasons.htm
- This website is for the children. Its a very interactive website that they will have fun exploring with their parents, or by themselves during center time. You could use this website as a center. Students get to click on links that take them to different activities they can do. It has the activities separated by the season which will add to their learning of the different between each season. If time does not allow for centers I would send this website home with the students to enjoy instead of homework.
- http://www.tvokids.com/games/sticksandseasons
- This website is a great website for children. Its an interactive game in a way. Students can easily explore this website by themselves. ideal for centers. It has all four seasons. It starts with spring, and the children just get to click on anything they want to and it changes the page. For example in spring that click on the dirt and a bird fly's in a plants seeds, then you can click on the clouds and its rains to make flowers grow. I think its great to really let them explore the seasons. This could be a center activity for the day before the unit because then they can have a little background knowledge going into the first lesson.
- https://interactive-notebooks.wikispaces.com/
- This website is a reference for teachers about interactive notebooks. An interactive notebook is created for this lesson. This gives you a general idea of what an interactive notebook really is. Having your students create an interactive notebook with this lesson, then being able to carry that notebook into other subjects and other topics. Interactive notebooks give students a chance to be hands on with their learning, and their reviewing of the topics.
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- Task Cards
- Flippables For Interactive Notebook
- More on Interactive Notebooks
- Additional Books on Seasons
- Four Seasons Song
- Additional Activities on the Four Seasons